Fire destroys family's mobile home

The Jones County Emergency Operations Center received a 911 call Friday reporting a mobile home fire in the Shady Grove community with children believed to be inside.

Shortly after 1 p.m. Southern Wholesale Furniture employee Daniel Thornton, a former Powers Volunteer Fire Department firefighter, was leaving for lunch when he noticed a cloud of smoke coming from the nearby neighborhood. He drove up the street to investigate the source of the smoke when he saw flames and smoke coming from a mobile home on Holly Drive. Thornton called 911 and headed for the burning structure.

Another man was running toward the back of the mobile home and told Thornton that children were inside.

It was later determined that the children were not inside the home when the fire started.

Shady Grove and Sharon Volunteer Fire Department along with Engine 1 and Engine 5 from the Laurel Fire Department responded to the fire.

The cause of the fire is unknown and appeared to have started in the middle of the mobile home in the kitchen and living room areas. The mobile home was deemed a total loss and remains under investigation by the Jones County Sheriff's Department.

The mobile home was occupied by Salvador and Marcella Barrera, their four children, ages 4 through 12, and Marcella's father, Antonio Estrada.

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Fire destroys family's mobile home

The Jones County Emergency Operations Center received a 911 call Friday reporting a mobile home fire in the Shady Grove community with children believed to be inside.